The Board of Directors and Guardians of Marylebone parish met
yesterday, and petitioned against the Corn-laws. There was a public meeting at Wandsworth, for the same purpose, on Thursday evening. The Chartists interfered at this meeting ; but the resolutions originally proposed were carried.
In the provinces, a public meeting for revision of the Import-duties, in the Potteries, on Thursday, was interrupted by the Chartists ; but eventually they concurred in the resolutions moved by the promoters of the meeting. The inhabitants of Cheadle and Southampton have unanimously adopted a petition to the same effect. The Manchester Chamber of Commerce has petitioned, "that not only may the limited relief proposed by Government be ceded, but that Parliament may at once proceed to revise the whole of our crude and injurious tariff of Customs-duties, with a view to the abolition of all taxation for any other than purposes of revenue." The Norwich Corporation have peti- tioned for repeal of the Corn-laws.
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